C1sc0cat

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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Vodaphone Business are not to bad - I switched to them when Vodaphone finally shutdown Demon.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I used to use the short walk to lunch (at a local pub) to work through possible solutions to bugs/problems.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Would not splitting responsibility for the Database to more senior developers work better. Not sure what you mean by quality control you don't enforce any coding standards / style guides for writing SQL. It does sound like your em
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Why is it not properly documented or are you not hiring developers with the right skills or providing training? Instead of fizz buzz maybe testing basic SQL abilities in an interview would be better.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I agree and for any serious database used in production SPROC's have so many advantages improved security as well.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
You can manipulate it by deciding what's included and by using reduction in costs of say big flat screen TV's over time.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Governments often fiddle with the definition or use other benefits to hide the true rate - in the UK there was pressure in the (1980's) for NHS GP's to put older unemployed people on disability to reduce the headline unemployment
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Ah the weird methods of arithmetic kids start out with which don't teach place order.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
In the early days eg Late 70's Apple was defiantly the Luxury end of the market in the UK - the "consumer" Personal Computer as a mass market item didn't come until several years later.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Joes (Kennedy) Wikipedia entry, and the Kennedy family have been players in democratic politics for decades and decades
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
IMO Joe Kennedy was using his sons to rehabilitate his reputation for being a NAZI sympathiser, and I suspect it was Joseph Kennedy not John that was being groomed for a political career.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Your company paid for that 5k monitor I hope ?
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Good luck if your a junior living in a studio apartment with no space to put a desk let alone have a spare room for office. Exactly why do you seem to be on the employers side here
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Sorry I don't believe you I have seen that data from some Large UK tech companies and the sex discrimination was very obvious, as well as race, and disability.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Probably because British actors don't want to commit to a 5 year contract.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I though that episodic tv was on the way out and that arc's and mythology where more important.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I am from the UK and think the opposite Your just used to the slower pace of the Uk media industry and to be blunt the gifted amateur pov. There is no actual reason that Dr Who could not do longer seasons for example they had to commit to h
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
There's still coal in the UK and it is high quality compared to say Germany - but it was initially a political decision by Thatchers government to switch to Gas, to hobble the NUM. You right that the federal nature of the USA is holdi
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
This sounds a bit like the posh workshop I went to on WAP (wireless access protocol) years ago when I worked for BT. It was a complete omnishambles - to the point I avoided the fancy lunch and went to the Pub for a ploughman's lunch, I
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I (Male in the UK) get a lot of adds for manscaping products - basically a shaver for your nether regions and a lot of those robovoiced portrait mode ones for bizarre niche tools.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Ruby or Ruby Murry is in common use generally for going to an Indian Restaurant.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Is there an equivalent in the UK? I was pitched a senior job pre covid by a hapless main stream recruiter and would like to see if a more specialist agency might pay dividends. This was a grade 6 or 7 Civil Service Role, Colonel and up to j
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Depends on country 25$ an hour is only a day rate of £160 in the UK. £400 is a good day rate for a average contract programmer outside London.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
That's not going to help get a well paid job and small businesses are needy and don't want to pay for what's needed.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
That's what "Mr Pliers" is for or more likely the Red Cap with a Holstered Webley
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I have been to interviews where it was leave your phone at reception and that was for a avowed job
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
That's a faraday cage or a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) Or if your the Mafia "Johnny Pliars" collects your phone before you go into the backroom :-)
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
But maybe not start with power supplies :-) or Valves (Tubes)
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
No they took it for themselves
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
But it left the local monopoly in palace instead of mandating Local Loop Unbundling which is why the US and Canada has such poor competition for highspeed internet.

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